Carter Healthcare

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Carter Healthcare was recognized and certified in 1988 by Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) as one of modern home-health care agencies which are scientifically measured and assessed to have high-quality home-health care services for promoting health and improving the quality of life. Carter Healthcare is located at 1901 S. Congress Blvd Ste 330 Boynton Beach, FL 33426 and can be contacted via phone number (561) 369-5100. Home Health Services being offerred by Carter Healthcare includes nursing, physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech pathology, medical social, home health aide.

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Quality Measures

Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) regularly surveys the quality of home health services basing on different metrics which more or less reflect the overall patients' health conditions after receving the services. This quality measures report is provided in order to help patients understand the home health services being offerred by Carter Healthcare and to help the facilities improve their service quality for promoting health. The following quality measures are collected, compiled and publicized on Jul 12th, 2017 by CMS

Quality Measures

Provider

State

Nation

How often the home health team began their patients' care in a timely manner

Provider

97%

State

95%

Nation

95%

How often the home health team taught patients (or their family caregivers) about their drugs

Provider

100%

State

98%

Nation

98%

How often the home health team checked patients' risk of falling

Provider

100%

State

99%

Nation

99%

How often the home health team checked patients for depression

Provider

100%

State

98%

Nation

98%

How often the home health team made sure that their patients have received a flu shot for the current flu season.

Provider

63%

State

69%

Nation

69%

How often the home health team made sure that their patients have received a pneumococcal vaccine (pneumonia shot).

Provider

57%

State

70%

Nation

70%

With diabetes, how often the home health team got doctor's orders, gave foot care, and taught patients about foot care

Provider

87%

State

93%

Nation

93%

How often the home health team checked patients for pain

Provider

100%

State

99%

Nation

99%

How often the home health team treated their patients' pain

Provider

99%

State

99%

Nation

99%

How often the home health team treated heart failure (weakening of the heart) patients' symptoms

Provider

100%

State

98%

Nation

98%

How often the home health team took doctor-ordered action to prevent pressure sores (bed sores)

Provider

99%

State

97%

Nation

97%

How often the home health team included treatments to prevent pressure sores (bed sores) in the plan of care

Provider

100%

State

98%

Nation

98%

How often the home health team checked patients for the risk of developing pressure sores (bed sores)

Provider

100%

State

99%

Nation

99%

How often patients got better at walking or moving around

Provider

88%

State

74%

Nation

74%

How often patients got better at getting in and out of bed

Provider

75%

State

71%

Nation

71%

How often patients got better at bathing

Provider

97%

State

79%

Nation

79%

How often patients had less pain when moving around

Provider

94%

State

79%

Nation

79%

How often patients' breathing improved

Provider

73%

State

64%

Nation

64%

How often patients' wounds improved or healed after an operation

Provider

93%

State

91%

Nation

91%

How often patients got better at taking their drugs correctly by mouth

Provider

84%

State

64%

Nation

64%

How often patients receiving home health care needed urgent, unplanned care in the ER without being admitted

Provider

12%

State

11%

Nation

11%

How often home health patients had to be admitted to the hospital

Provider

15%

State

16%

Nation

16%

N/A Data not available.

Patient Experiences

Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) regularly gathers feedback information from patients (and their family or friends) about their experiences with a certain home health agency. In the survey, the patients shares their feelings about services they received, and whether they would recommend the agency to someone else. This information is also very helpful to the agency, telling the agency where to focus their improvement efforts for better health care and services.

Patient Experience

Provider

State

Nation

Percent of patients who reported that their home health team gave care in a professional way

Provider

87%

State

88%

Nation

88%

Percent of patients who reported that their home health team communicated well with them

Provider

83%

State

85%

Nation

85%

Percent of patients who reported that their home health team discussed medicines, pain, and home safety with them

Provider

81%

State

81%

Nation

81%

Percent of patients who gave their home health agency a rating of 9 or 10 on a scale from 0 (lowest) to 10 (highest)

Provider

86%

State

84%

Nation

84%

Percent of patients who reported YES, they would definitely recommend the home health agency to friends and family

This home-health data was updated by using the dataset publicized on Jul 12th, 2017 by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). If you found out anything that is incorrect and want to change it, please follow this Update Data guide.

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